The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is using $1.3 million from the Opioid Settlement Fund to expand hospital support for substance-exposed babies and their families. The funds will be dispersed across five different birthing hospitals to support rooming-in, which allows birthing-individuals, caregivers, and babies to lodge in the same room after birth.
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